Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana, 1920-1940University of Pittsburgh Pre, 1998 M01 15 - 336 páginas Nationalizing Blackness uses the music of the 1920s and 1930s to examine Cuban society as it begins to embrace Afrocuban culture. Moore examines the public debate over “degenerate Africanisms” associated with comparas or carnival bands; similar controversies associated with son music; the history of blackface theater shows; the rise of afrocubanismo in the context of anti-imperialist nationalism and revolution against Gerardo Machado; the history of cabaret rumba; an overview of poetry, painting, and music inspired by Afrocuban street culture; and reactions of the black Cuban middle classes to afrocubanismo. He has collected numerous illustrations of early twentieth-century performers in Havana, many included in this book. Nationalizing Blackness represents one of the first politicized studies of twentieth-century culture in Cuba. It demonstrates how music can function as the center of racial and cultural conflict during the formation of a national identity. |
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... written by the white middle classes , yet interpreting them differently . The em- phasis here on a conceptual binary opposition between Hispanic / elite / domi- nant and African / popular / subaltern has the advantage of creating a ...
... written to document the personal experiences of the working classes and other marginal groups . Few oral histories of any sort exist , and even fewer concentrate specifically on the lives of Afrocubans.21 Information of this sort in ...
... written form , creating a stylized literary version of the bozal dialect . Francisco Fernandez also deserves mention as the creator of the negro catedrdtico or pretentious , semi - educated black.5 Like Crespo 42 MUSIC AND DANCE OF THE ...
... writing music for productions of this sort . Promi- nent orchestras such as the Orquesta Hermanos Lebatard ( many of whose members later formed the Lecuona Cuban Boys ) first began playing in the- aters and only later became famous in ...
... written by Ernesto Lecuona in 1927 as part of the zarzuela La nina Rita 0 La Habana en 1830. It featured Rita Montaner in blackface as the coach driver- slave , a light - skinned Afrocuban female playing a negrito male.13 The com- bined ...
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COMPARSAS AND CARNIVAL IN THE NEW REPUBLIC Four Decades of Cultural Controversy | 62 |
ECHALE SALSITA Sones and Musical Revolution | 87 |
NATIONALIZING BLACKNESS The Vogue of Afrocubanismo | 114 |
THE RUMBA CRAZE Afrocuban Arts as International Popular Culture | 166 |
THE MINORISTA VANGUARD Modernism and Afrocubanismo | 191 |
CONCLUSION | 215 |
APPENDIX 1 | 229 |
NOTES | 243 |
GLOSSARY | 275 |
REFERENCES | 289 |
INDEX | 313 |
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Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Nationalizing Blackness: Afrocubanismo and Artistic Revolution in Havana ... Robin D. Moore Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |